Identification of persulfide-binding and disulfide-forming cysteine residues in the NifS-like domain of the molybdenum cofactor sulfurase ABA3 by cysteine-scanning mutagenesis

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 441, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 823-832

  Lehrke, Markus ^a   Rump, Steffen ^a   Heidenreich, Torsten ^a   Wissing, Josef ^b   Mendel, Ralf R ^a   Bittner, Florian ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

ABA3; Active site loop; Arabidopsis thaliana; Molybdenum cofactor sulfurase; Persulfide

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE OXIDASE; CYSTATHIONINE GAMMA LYASE; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; MOLYBDENUM; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFURIZATION; DISULFIDE BOND; ENZYME ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; COENZYMES; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDES; HUMANS; METALLOPROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPS; PTERIDINES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SULFIDES; SULFURTRANSFERASES;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84855923018     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: 14708728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20111170     Document Type: Article

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